Quotes About Introspection

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

I've never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.